"The Freedom Index is not the be-all end-all of evaluating legislators, of course. It doesn’t capture how many bills a lawmaker sponsored or how he or she voted in committee. It also doesn’t reflect how much work a lawmaker did behind the scenes to promote good bills or defeat bad ones. Nevertheless, it is a useful data point. If two lawmakers are within 5% of each other, then you’ll need to find other data points to help make your decision. However, if you have one in the 80s and another in the 30s, you can be certain that the former is much more conservative than the latter."
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